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. PRINTING MACHINE.

No. 324,976. Patented Aug. 25, 1885.

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PRINTING MACHINE. No. 824,976. Patented Aug. 25, 1885.

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PRINTING MACHINE.

No. 324,976. I Patented Aug. 25, 1885.

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El)\VYN ANIIIONY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO R. HOE

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PRINTING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,976, dated August 25,1885.

Application filed May 18,1893. (No model.)

To coZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Eowrn ANTHONY, a object of the Queen of Great Britain, 'residng at Jersey City, county of Hudson, State of Few Jersey, have invented a new and useful improvement in Printing-l\[aehines, of which he following is a specification.

My invention relates to the printing a sixage paper from one set of forms when the forms are placed on the printing-cylinder so that the column-rules lie parallel to the axis if the cylinder.

The invention consists in combining, with iitable impressioncylinders and a form-cylider upon which six forms are arranged three breast, of means for longitudinally dividing "1e web first into three strips or narrow webs, .en transversely severing two of the strips .10 sheets of large size and the other strip 0 sheets of smaller size, and means for as iating alternate smaller sheets with the rge sheets, all of which is particularly hereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine illustrating my invention, Fig. 2 being a side elevation showing the delivery end of the machine on a larger scale. Fig. 3 is a corresponding plan view; Fig. 4, a section on the line X X, Fig. 2; and Figs. 5 to 1.0, inclusive, indicate how the webs issue in the various cases to which they relate.

:teferring to Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, A indicates the form-cylinder, on which the siX forms are The circumference of this cylinder may be once, or twice, or three times, or &c., times the breadth of two forms, (plus suitable margins,) a corresponding number of impressioncylinders of course being employed. In the drawings the circumference is three times the said breadth, so that there are three impression-cylinders (marked B) for printing one side of the web, and three imp res sion-cylinders, B, for printing the other side of the web. Carrier-cylinders G are arranged in connection with the impressioncylinders B, and similar ones, 0 in connection with the imp ression-cylinders Bfito conduct the web between pairs of such cylinders.

D is any suitable turning apparatus fixed in such a way that when the web lhrming the roll R is the broadest the machine will print('z'. 6., is a three-breadth roll)-its sides will be re versed by passing through the apparatus without the web undergoing any lateral transfer. As such devices are well known,it is unneces sary to further explain the one shown in the drawings, which is such as is described in Patent No. 212,444, dated February 18, 1879, (see Fig. 9,) and in Patent No. 212,880, dated March 4, 1879. (See Fig. 6 thereof.)

i l mark rollers which conduct the web respectively to and from the said turning apparatus D.

E F mark the slitting mechanism for 1ongitndinally dividing the web. As shown, it consists of a cylinder, F, having cuttinggrooves in which rotary cutters or slitters 2, mounted in the cylinder E, run. (See Fig. 3.)

The course of the web up to the lastn1en tioned cylinders is manifest by an inspection of the drawings. It is printed on one side by the impression-cylinders B, and then, after passing through the turning apparatus D, is reversed, and then is printed on the other side by the impression-cylinders B", and it is evident that by suitably arranging the six forms on the form cylinder A the web may be printed on as indicated by Fig. 5, the dotted longitudinal lines showing the lines along which the web is divided by the slitters 2 of the cylinders E F. Thus the web, after passing between the slitting mechanism, becomes three distinct strips or one-breadth webs, which are indicated by the letters R R R.

The object of the mechanism shown to the left of the cylinders E F is to cause the webs to pass between the rollers a aim the for1nindicated by Fig. 6. There they form two continuous sideby-side streams of six-page papers, facsimiles of one another in every respect; and the further folding and delivery mechanism may be the same as is used for fold ing four-page papers. As such folding mech anisms are well. known, and as this invention does not relate thereto, none are shown in the drawings.

I will first describe the mechanism. to the left of the cylinders E and. F, and afterward indicate the course of the webs in passing through it.

H indicates a reversing apparatus similar to the apparatus D. 1 are fixed cylinders or tarners arranged at right angles to one another and inclined at an angle of forty-five degrees to the cylinder E. is a roller whose axis is at right angles to that of the cylinder E, and it is inclined at forty-five degrees to the turner or cylinders j l. The strip R passes through this reversing apparatus, first over the turner Z, then out at right angles to the roller it, around which latter it is returned to pass over the turner j, which again turns it at right angles. It is thus reversed and transferred laterally by exactly its breadth.

H indicates a reversing apparatus similar to that marked H, (f and q being the fixed turners or cylinders, andg the roller corresponding to the roller is of the apparatus H.)

Q Q are cutting-cylinders which transversel y sever the web B into one-pagc-hroad sheets, as indicated by the dotted transverse lines on the web R in Fig. 5. Alternate sheets of this web pass through the reversing apparatus H, and it must therefore be taped as hereinafter explained. The reversing apparatus H is fixed horizontally, while H is similarly inclined. Of course this is a detail, and their position may be varied at pleasure.

G G are cutting-cylinders for transversely severing the webs It R which pass between them, into two-page-broad strips R R, as indicated by the lines across those webs in Fi g. 5.

A number of pairs of drawing-rollers are used, (marked, respectively, L L, e c, n n, a b, c d, T U, and T U.)

A pair of oscillating rollers, V WV, (a slight interval being between them,) is arranged to move in the are of a circle whose center is the point of contact of the rollers T and U, and the axes of the rollers a b c d lie in the arc of a circle concentric with the one just mentioned. The rollers V and T and NV and U are connected by tapes, and the oscillations of the rollers V and W must be timed so as to deliver sheets alternately between rollers a and b and between rollers c and d. Rollers c d have their shafts provided with loose running pulleys somewhat smaller in diameter than the rollers themselves, and these rollers are provided with guards c d, for the purpose of preventing the oncoming sheets from coming in contact with the tapes that go round the said rollers c (1, respectively. m, h, and 6 mark ordinary carrier rollers. s and 0 indicate rollers for returning the tapes which pass through the reversing apparatus H, and r r r t t t designate guide-pulleys for the same purpose, their axes being all parallel to one another, and at right angles to the rollers, such as e e, 850.

The taping is as follows: A set of tapes pass round the rollers d and d. The upper roller, 6, and the loose pulleys on the shaft of d are also connected by tapes. Tapes pass round the lower roller, 0, and thence between rollers n a. The ends y must of course be ultimately joined to the ends 3 of the same tapes; but

they are not shown asjoined, since their course after passing between rollers n n will depend on the after folding and delivery mechanism. A set of tapes (denoted by 1') pass round rollers c e and the loose pulleys on 0.

Referring to the tapes which pass through the reversing apparatus H, tapes go round the roller b, thence round the roller h to the turning-bar f, from there round the roller 9 to the turning --bar q, and thence between the rollers a n, the ends being indicated by the letter T. Their future course will depend on the after folding and delivery mechanism, and therefore they are not shown as joined to the other ends, r,- but of course they must be ultimately returned by guidepulleys or other suitable means to the other ends, r. Another set of tapes (which should run in pairs on the top of the tapes last described) start from the roller a, go round the roller h to the turningbarf, thence round rollers g to the turningbar (1, from there round the rollers c and 0, thence round the guide-pulleys r r 9" (one tape going round each pulley,) thence round the rollers s, from there round the guide-pulleys t t t (one tape going round each pulley,) and then return to the roller a.

The three webs It It R after passing between the cylinders E F, follow each a different path, but such that each of them ulti mately passes between the rollers 12 n. The web R goes round the turning-bar Z to roller k, thence round turning-bar j to between drawing-rollers L L. It is then transversely severed by the cutting-cylinders G G into twopage-broad sheets, and passing between roilers e 6 goes between the rollers a n. The web R goes straight to the roller m, and thence between rollers L L, its transverse severing and after course being similar to that just de scribed with reference to the web It. Thus the two webs R R will pass between the rollers n n in two continuous side-by-side streams of sheets two-page broad, (in the direction of their motion,) the pages lying the same way up in each stream. The cutting-cylinders G G must'completely sever the webs transversely, or a suitable device be added for the purpose of completing the severance. The web R goes from the cylindersEF to between rollers T U, and passing between the cutting-cylinders Q Q,wherebyit is severed 011 the dotted lines shown in Fig. 5, enters between rollers TUin a stream of one-page-broadsheets. The oscillation of the rollersV W causes the sheets to be delivered alternately between rollers a andb and between rollerscand (1. Those which enter between rollers c and (I pass to between the rollers a a without undergoing any reversal or lateral transfer. Those entering between rollers a and b pass over roller h to the turning-bar f, thence round the roller gto the turning-bar q, and finally pass between rollers an, having had their sides reversed, and having been transferred laterally by j ust their breadth- (nieasured at right angles to the motion.) Of course the distance of travelof the sheets from Ice between rollers a and Z) to between rollers 22 n, and likewise from between rollers c and d to between rollers a a, must be adjusted so that the pages come in proper order, as indicated in Fig. 6, and the oscillation of the rollers V \V must be timed so that the sheets p, Fig. 5, pass between 0 and d, and the sheets (f between rollers a and Z).

The transverse cuttingcyliinlers Q, Q may completely sever the sheets, or it may be com pleted by the oscillation of the rollers V V; and instead of the oscillating rollers a switch or switches or any other suitable device for dividing one stream into two streams may be used.

\Vhen it is desired to print a four-page in lieu of a sirepage paper, no adjustments are needed further than to duly regulate the supply of ink, and to use (in place of one threebreadth web) two one-breadth webs arranged with a oneln'cadth interval between them, the forms being on the printing-cylinder so that thewebs issue printed on as indicated by Fig. 7. Similarly a two-page paper may be printed by using one one-breadth web centrally placed and arranging the two forms so that the web may issue printed on as indicated by Fig. 8. After passing between rollers n a the sheets should go direct to the second foldgiving mechanism without passing through (as is the case of a four and a six page paper) the iirst fold-giving mechanism.

All the preceding obviously applies to the ease of transverse cutting before printing, the sheets being suitably conducted between tapes, and the circumference of the printing-cylinder being some multiple of the portion occupied by the forms plus suitable margins plus the interval between successive sheets at the time of printing.

It is obvious that themanner of associating the strips may be very much varied without departing from the principle of myinvention. For example, the striplt might be transferred laterally without being reversed,provided that the sheets P from the web 1: are made to enter between the rollers a b and are transferred without reversal, and the sheets from web R are led onto the under side of strip R. The portion p of strip It having page at uppermost will thus be transferred laterally onto the web It, and thenext portion g of the strip having page 8 uppermost will be transferred laterally by turners that will carry it around the devices in its path and return it without reversing it under the strip it. So, too, it would be practical to allow the strip It to run direct but be reversed without detlection, and to conduct the section of the web R that is to be associated with it, through a. transferring apparatus connected with the pathway leading from the rolls 0 (Z, and this would involve lateral transfer of both sections of the web R, the q portion being transferred laterally and reversed,and the p portion simply transferred laterally; but the section for association with the web Bf would be led on I top of said web, and the section for association with web 1 would also be led onto the top of web R. In general this result would not be so convenient for after folding, since the papers in each stream would have opposite sides uppermost, and in both cases the amount of transfer might be such that there would be an interval between the two streams, instead of their being close together, as in Fig. 6.

Again, by longitudinally dividing or splitting the web before it has received its second. impression (in the manner explained in an application for Letters Patent for an improvement in printing-presses, filed by me on the same day as the present application) the threebreadth web might bebronght into fourpage form substantially in the way hereinbefore described, and a four-page paper might be printed by the use of one two-breadth roll, instead of two single-breadth ones. For example, supposethe web is divided or splitlongitudinally along the dotted line shown in Fig. 9 before it has rcceivedits second impression, and that the resulting twobreadth and onebreadth webs are reversed independently, as explained in the aforesaid application. Then the forms may be arranged on the form-cylinder so that the web issues as indicated by Fig. 9, and now it may be brought into four-page form by treatment almost identical with that previously described. Thus the web B should be reversed and transferred laterally by just twice its breadth, sons to come underneath the web R The web It" should be neither reversed nor transferred. The alternate sheets p of the web B should be neither reversed nor transferred, while the alternate sheets (1 should be reversed and transferred by exactly their breadth, so as to come onto the web R. Two streams will thus be formed exactlylike those in Fig. 6.

To print a fou r-page paper a two-breadth roll should be placed toward one side of the machine, and the forms placed on the printing cylinder so that the web mayissue as shown by Fig. 10. Similarly for atwo-pagepaperaonebreadth web should be placed toward a side of the machine, (instead of centrally, as before,) and the web should issue as Fig. 8 indicates.

hat I claim herein as my invention is 1. The combination, with mechanism for printing opposite sides of a web with like matter, of slitting mechanism for dividing one web into three webs, and of mechanism for directing successive sections of one web alternately into association with the other two webs, all substantially as described.

2. The combination,with a slitting mechanism for dividing one web into three webs, of detlectin g devices for bringi ng the outside webs side by side, and a switching mechanism for directing alternate sect-ions of the central web into separate pathways, one of which is provided with a transferring mechanism, the whole operating to associate successive sections of one web alternately with the other two webs, all substantially as described.

the other stream of two-paged sheets,whereby a siXpage paper is printed from one set of forms (whose columns lie at right angles to I 5 their motion) and is caused to issue so that the after-folding mechanism is the same as is required for folding two streams of four-page papers, all substantially as described.

EDWVYN ANTHONY.

of a forin-cylinder adapted to receive six forms, three abreast, the column-rules lying parallel to its axis) and impression-cylinders with mechanism for longitudinally dividing or splitting the web into three strips, mechanism for transversely severing two of the strips into sheets on each side of which two pages are printed,mechsheets 011 each side of which one page is print- Witnesses: ed, and mechanism for associating these last- CHAS. RAETTIG, mentioned sheets alternately with the one and F. BAUER.

It is hereby certified that Letters Patent N 0. 324,976, granted August 25, 1885, upon the application of Edwyn Anthony, of Jersey City, New Jersey, for an improvement in Printing Machines, was erroneously issued to R. Hoe & 00., its successors or assigns that said Letters Patent should have been issued to R. Hoe (E 00., their heirs or assigns that this correction has been made in the records of the case in the Patent Office, and that the said Letters Patent should be read to conform thereto.

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 1st day of September, A. D. 1885.

[SEAL] G. A. J ENKS, I

Acting Secretary of the Interior. Oountersigned M. V. MONTGOMERY,

Commissioner of Patents. 

